Nashville Kangaroos
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Full name | Nashville Kangaroos |
Nickname | Kangaroo |
Strip | Blue, with white vertical sash and red kangaroo emblem |
Founded | 1997 |
Sport | Australian rules football |
League | MAAFL |
Ground | Elmington Park |
Club song | n/a |
President/Chair | Grant White |
Coach | Grant White |
Captain | Luke Nemeth |
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The Nashville Kangaroos is an Australian/American social and sports club based in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States. It competes in Australian rules football (often called "Aussie rules") in the MAAFL and USAFL National Championships, and organises netball in the region.
The club also runs a Metro Footy league, known as the Nashville Australian Football League
[edit] History
The club was founded in 1997. It is one of the oldest Aussie Rules clubs in the United States and founded Nashville's popular annual Australian Festival.
The club holds the record for Aussie Rules attendance in the USA, regularly drawing hundreds of spectators to its home ground.
It has an ongoing involvement in college Aussie Rules in the US through the Vanderbilt University Australian Rules club.
[edit] See also
- Mid American Australian Football League
- US Footy
- Nashville Australian Football League
[edit] External links
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